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Military service
Service number:
R/71909
Age:
21
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
58 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Death:
October 13, 1941
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Row F. Grave 4.
Additional information
Son of John William and Margaret Brown Donson, of York Mills, Ontario, Canada.
Digital gallery of Sergeant Hugh Edwin Donson
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Gravemarker
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Newspaper Clipping
Source: Globe and Mail, October 17, 1941 -
Memorial
Inscription to the memory of Pilot Officer Sergeant HUGH EDWIN DONSON on the Donson family grave marker in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario -
Memorial
Sergeant Hugh Edwin Donson is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Sergeant Hugh Edwin Donson is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star June 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram October 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 28 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BARMBY-ON-THE-MOOR (ST. CATHERINE) CHURCHYARD Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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